Pearl of Great PriceJul 5, 20218 min readJuly 6 Mircea Eliade and the Eternal Return Today we look at the life and thought of Mircea Eliade a Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, and professor at...
Pearl of Great PriceJul 2, 20213 min readJuly 3 Prester John and Marco PoloFor more than 500 years, Europeans believed a Christian king ruled over a vast empire somewhere in the wilds of Africa, India or the Far...
Pearl of Great PriceMay 11, 20213 min readMay 12 John Paul II and Fatima's Third Secret Today, we remember how Spanish ultratraditional priest, Fernández y Krohn assaulted Pope John Paul II with a bayonet. The Pope was in...
Pearl of Great PriceMay 4, 20213 min readMay 4 Dividing the 'New World' Today we remember how in 1493 Pope Alexander VI, in an age of exploration divided the 'New World' between Spain and Portugal. Giving the...
Pearl of Great PriceFeb 5, 20213 min readFeb 5 - Japans hidden Christians Today we remember 26 Christians who were crucified in Nagasaki in 1597. Tracing the rollercoaster story of Christianity in Japan, early...
Pearl of Great PriceJan 31, 20213 min readJan 25 - São Paulo founded by missionaries Today in 1554 a small group of Jesuit missionaries, built a mission on top of a steep hill on the Piratiningha plains . As part of the...
Pearl of Great PriceJan 30, 20213 min readJan 23 - The Netherlands Splits Today in 1579 a treaty was signed by Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, and the province (but not the city) of Groningen which effectively split...